Hi everybody, welcome to tonight's Firelight Chat. Tonight we're going to be talking about

COP City and specifically the Stop COP City movement. COP City is a police training facility

that is intended to be built in Atlanta, Georgia. But it's also much more than that because

that is a template for such facilities being built all around the country. This is not

good news and when you hear about what they are, what a COP City would mean, what it represents

in terms of domestic policing and the militarization of domestic policing, I think it would be, as

I am, quite horrified. Also, it's about the murder of Manuel Tortuquita

Taran, who was one of the protesters of COP City and was murdered by Georgia police.

So I'm going to introduce you to some people who are very involved with the movement to

stop COP City before they come on. Let me tell you who they are. Lev O'Mell Chinko was born in

Ukraine. He immigrated with his family to Brooklyn at age nine. As a filmmaker, he is driven

by collaborations with cultural and community labors whose practice is outside the traditional

film industry. His films have screened throughout the country at festivals, including the Atlanta

Film Festival and Maryland Film Festival, and in classrooms at universities like MIT, Columbia,

and Emory. Lev is currently in production on a documentary feature film about the protest

movement to stop COP City in Atlanta. As a director of photography, Lev filmed the COP City video

journalism piece for AJ Plus, which recently won an Emmy Award. We also have Nolan Hubert

wrote. He is an Emmy award-winning director, cinematographer, and video journalist, who focuses

on stories of resistance and liberation movements, particularly in the US South. He is a PhD candidate

who has spent the last five years studying narrative paradigm theory and asking questions

about how we can use film, psychology, and social science to disrupt oppression and tell

paradigm-shifting stories. His work has been featured in Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, The New

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